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Lone Stars

By: Justin Deabler
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
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Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves - as immigrants, smart women, gay people - we find power in empathy.

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I downloaded this book because its the October Bookclub book for the Gulf Coast Reads book selection. I became engaged in thoses broken lives at the beginning of the book. But, I kept thinking at each turn of events what phillip asked...'What will you tell our child about your family'.

There is so much baggage that each person carries through their life. The children of each generation a blind to the events that shaped their parents and grandparents. They resent the imperfections, yet those are fabric of our lives and the basis for baggage. We build on those events and just hope its enough to help the next generation have a more perfect life.

I cried a lot for Julian and his ancestors. But family is also what you make of your relationships. Marisol's baby is going to love this family who aches for her. May Marisol stay close and blend her baggage with Phillip and Julian's...a rich tapestry of love woven throughout.

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